BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Another James Beard Award-winning chef opened a new restaurant in Birmingham, a Springville barbecue cook competed on a national TV stage, and three area eating establishments advanced to the finals of a statewide cheeseburger contest.

If you missed any of those stories, here's your Sunday-morning roundup of what happened on the food and restaurant beat in Birmingham this past week.

In the big news of the week, Oxford, Miss., chef John Currence and Birmingham restaurateur Nick Pihakis of Jim 'N Nick's Bar-B-Q opened a Birmingham location of Currence's popular Big Bad Breakfast on U.S. 280.

On TV, competitive barbecue cook John Coon of Springville made it to the national semifinals of the Destination America cable network's "BBQ Pitmasters'' reality show, but he narrowly missed advancing to the final round.

Also, Alabaster's Chubb's Grub Station, Bessemer's J&J Grocery & Deli and Birmingham's Chez Fonfon all advanced to the Final 15 of AL.com's Alabama's Best Cheeseburger hunt, the winner of which will be announced on June 18.